Gadgets

Netflix just hammered out new deals with both Fox and Universal movie studios. The big news is that new-release DVDs from those two studios won’t be available right away on launch day any more. Instead, there will be a 28-day window in the interest of granting the studios “a dedicated time period for sales of its physical and digital …

It’s Friday! Maybe you just got paid. You could use that money for boring stuff like bills, rent, and food, or you could act like a wonderfully impulsive consumer and spend it on any number of products. Here are some ideas to get you started based on your taxable income bracket.

New Star Wars MIMOBOT thumb drives, folks. Gather round, gather round. Aside from the previously available Royal Guard, Wicket, C-3PO, Captain Rex, Darth Maul, and Darth Vader, we can now say hello to five new additions to Mimoco’s line of USB storage collectibles.

With Jack Johnson filling the air at Building 4, Town Hall, Steve Jobs revealed what many of us have been expecting for over a year: multitasking. Along with Scott Forstall and Phil Schiller, Steve Jobs walked through 7 of the 100 new features coming to the “most advanced mobile operating system in the world” that will be available …

I’m here at Building 4, Town Hall, in Cupertino, CA at the developer unveiling of iPhone OS 4.0. The new OS is available to iPhone developers today, while the general public will get the update sometime this summer.

Jobs and company have announced over 100 new user features and they’re focusing on 7 “tentpole” features today. Before …

The iPad isn’t even a full week out of the gate and already a DigiTimes analyst is hearing from “upstream component sources” that Apple may be planning a 5- to 7-inch iPad for the first quarter of next year.

Apparently it “will be priced below US$400 and will target the highly-portable mobile device market and consumers that …

This is what I’ve been thinking about since I first laid hands on the iPad back in January in San Francisco. While the rest of the Internet bitched and moaned about the lack of this (camera) or that (SD card slot/USB port/etc.), which I couldn’t care less about, I wondered what developers …

Fanboys, avert your eyes. The folks at Blendtec, purveyors of a line of uber-powerful blenders and producers of one of the Internet’s most awesome viral video franchises, celebrated the much ballyhooed launch of the iPad by buying one, tossing it in a blender and throwing on the switch. Well, only after after they crushed, smacked, …